Painters Must Speak Through Paint, Not Through

The Truly Monumental Can Only Come About By Means Of The Most Exact And Refined Relation Between Parts. Since Each Thing Carries Both A Meaning Of Its Own And An Associated Meaning In Relation To Something Else - Its Essential Value Is Relative. We Speak Of The Mood We Experience When Looking At A Landscape. This Mood Results From The Relation Of Certain Things Rather Than From Their Separate Actualities. This Is Because Objects Do Not In Themselves Possess The Total Effect They Give When Interrelated.

Nature's Purpose In Relation To The Visual Arts Is To Provide Stimulus Not Imitation. From Its Ceaseless Urge To Create Springs All Life - All Movement And Rhythm - Time And Light, Color And Mood - In Short, All Reality In Form And Thought.

A Work Of Art Is A World In Itself Reflecting Senses And Emotions Of The Artist's World. Just As A Flower, By Virtue Of Its Existence As A Complete Organism Is Both Ornamental And Self-sufficient As To Color, Form, And Texture, So Art, Because Of Its Singular Existence Is More Than Mere Ornament.

Art Cannot Result From Sophisticated, Frivolous, Or Superficial Effects.

Painters Must Speak Through Paint, Not Through Words.